1. Performance Monitor Counters in different platforms
Prasanth B L
Aakash Arora

2. Smart Phones Moto G3 – ARM Cortex 53 ARM v7

3. ARM Tools IDE : DS 5 Development Studio, Data Streamline
No of Counters 5
No of Performance monitor events 62
The performance counters can be configured and accessed through software calls, or via ARM's debug tools
Tools
IDE : DS 5 Development Studio, Data Streamline
Notes
The same procedure could be applied to any version 7 and above of ARM architecture and the target should run Linux or Android

4. Direct current Measurement from the battery (Current Sensor)
Supported devices
Moto G (XT1033) with Android version 4.4.4
Samsung Galaxy S3 4.3 (XXUGNA5 working partially, showing correct values when charging but discharging shows 0 mA)
Etc
Reference
Android App : Ampere

5. Desktop/Laptop Intel i7 AMD 15h family

6. Intel i7
Each core has its own PMU. They have 3 fixed counters and 4 general counters for each Hyper-Thread
The Uncore has its own PMU for monitoring its activity. It consists of 8 general counters and one fixed counter
No of Performance monitor events 98
Tools
Intel® Performance Counter Monitor
Intel® Power Gadget

8. AMD 15h family No of counters 4 No of Performance monitor events 98
Reference
Tools
AMD System Monitor

9. Some Platform independent tools to read the performance counters of processors in Linux
Oprofile
perf
Reference

10. Performance counter considered in the references research papers
Server Platform / AMD Opteron 246
quadword write transfers
L2 cache misses (datacache fill)
dispatch stalls due to reorder buffers being full
DRAM accesses due to page conflicts.
Laptop / Pentium M Processor
Number of completed burst transactions
Number of lines removed from the L2 cache
Reference
Koala : A Platform for OS-Level Power Management , D Csnowdown,E L Sueur,S M Petters, Gernot Heiser, Proceedings of the 4th ACM European conference on Computer systems 2009